Antoon Pardon wrote: > Well I wonder. Would the following code be considered a name binding > operation: > > b.a = 5
Try it, it's not. Python 2.2.3 (#1, Nov 12 2004, 13:02:04) [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-42)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? NameError: name 'a' is not defined >>> b = object() >>> b.a Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'a' Once it's attached to an object, it's an attribute, not a base name. The distinction is subtle and possibly something that could (should?) be unified for Py3k, but in cases like this the distinction is important. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
